OTISFIELD – A road that washed out in the April storms should be improved before winter, a selectman said Wednesday.

Last week, selectmen voted unanimously to award a contract for improvements to Park Way to Off Road Construction in Minot, one of three bidders. The company offered to do the job for $41,600.

“We hope to get started within the next two weeks,” Selectman Hal Ferguson said.

He said the company will put in oversize culverts, stone-lined ditches, and a rock lined pool to absorb runoff and keep it out of Thompson Lake.

The spring rainstorms washed out Shore Road and Park Way, sent sediment into Thompson Lake, and briefly cut off road access for five or six families, Ferguson said.

Engineer Ross Cudlitz did the design for the improvements. Cudlitz looked at where the culverts needed to be installed as well as what size they needed to be, what slopes ditches needed to be on, and where grass-lined ditches might be used instead of the more expensive stone-lined ditches.

Ferguson said the contract will be administered under Cudlitz, who will be the technical engineer on the project.

Ferguson said the project will take three weeks to complete, and the completion date is Dec. 1.